Little Falls transcript., 1887-06-10
CRUEL REVENGE.
How Bob Burdctte Got Even with Nh
Jestic but Very lmpolIte Gentleman. !

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ssHow Bob Burdctte Got Even with a Ma
jestic but Very Impolite Gentleman. J.
~ Once, in the dead heart Of the pitt.
less winter had drawn my good two
handed Lecture with the Terrible Name.
and was shifting all the coasts Of Penn
sylvania with it, sparinS neither (pro-
-nounced nyther) young or old, and
wearing at my belt the scalps of many
= pale-face audience. One night
reached Erie the pleasant jrst us the
clocks in the Lord Mayors castle
struck twenty ~one. 1t was bitter. bit
ing, singing cold, and there was no
Ambulance at the station, while there
was a good hotel there. | went in a 4
Registered, and man of cornmuntlin.
presence, tailor-built clothes and a
brown beard Of most refined culture,
followea me. and under my plebeian
scrawl made the register luminous with
his patrician cognomen. stood u lit
tile in awe Of this ma iescic being, about
las little as usually stand in the pres
'encc Of any majestic creature, and when
in % deep bass, commanding voice he
ordered room had ~ great mind
something that I always carry with me
when travel-to 90 out and get him
zone. The gentlcmanly and urbane
night clerk, who also seemed to be
deeply inpressed--asi is the habit OF the
night clerk-with the gentleman re-
spOnsible-to-any amount toot on,
Sawmbel said he was sorry but he had
bnt one vacant room and it contained
but one bed, '.Still.' he said. as be-
came man who was bound to stand
for his house if it hadn't u bed in it,
''itwas a very wide bed, very wide
.and quite long. Two gentlemen could
.sloep in it quite comfortably, and it,
But the Commanding Being at my side
Ssaid that was quite altogether out of
the question entirely. Quite! He was sor-
~ for the--hcre he looked at me, hesitat-
"4l. but finally said-gentleman, but He
1>,uldn't share His room with him. He
wa sorry for the-gentleman and hop
II he mi ght find comfortable lodgings,
hnt He couldn't permit him to occupy
Gym q portion Of His bed. Then the
"''rh begged pardon, and was sorry,
44l,l all that, but this other gentleman
bad registered first, and it
was for him to, say what dis
position should be made Of this lonely
room and solitary bed. I hastcned to
assure the majestic being that it was
all right; he was welcomc to two-thirds
of the room, all tie looking-glass and
ono-half Of the bed. ''No,' he said,
very abruptly, 'I will sit here by the
stove and sleep in: u chair. I thank
you. sir, but I would not sleep with my
'own brother. I prefer u room to my
self" I,neekly told him that didn't
know what kjna of % man his brother
was, but no doubt he did. and thcre-
fore must co,ielude that he wasn't
fit man to slcsp with. But his brother
was out of the question, and if he
wanted part Of my couch, he might
have it and welcome, and would agree
not to think Of his brother No sir"
he said, II will sleep in no mans bed" "
said I wouldn't either, if I wasn't
sleepy, but when I was sleepy, didn't
caro; ia sleep with the King of Eng
land or the President, and wouldn't
care cent who knew it.
Well, ! went to bed, | curled up un-
edcr the warm, soft blankets, and heard
'the wind shrek and wall and whistle
and ycll--how like all creation the
wind can blow in Erie--and AZ the night
grew colder and colder every minute,
/ fell asleep and dreamed that heaven
was just forty light miles west Of Dun
kirk. About 2;3O or 3 o'clock there
came laundering rap at the t(oor,and
with vague, half-waking impression
IN my dream that sombody from the
other place was trying to get in,
said: I
"What is it?''
1T is l." answered a splendid voice,
which / recognized at once. II am
the gentleman who came on tho train
with you.''
YES" I said, "and what is the mat
'ter?''
The splendid voice was q triAe hum
bic as it replied:
"' have changed my mind about
sleeping with another man.
so have r. howled. so joyously
that the very winds laughed in merry
,'echo. $50 have I! / wouldn't get out
of this warm bed to open that door for
my own brother!"
] will close this story here. Ii ]
should write The language that went
down that dim, cold hall outside my
door you wouldn't print it. And. when
next morning I went skipping down
stairs as fresh as rose, and saw that
smajestic being knotted up in a hard
arm chair, looking hundred years old,
said:
"Better is poor and wise child than
an old and foolish King, who knowetll
not how to be admonished. For out OF
prison he cometh to reign. whereas,
also he that is born in his kingdom be,
cometh poor" This also is vanity,
Robert j. Burdette, IN Broob%ys Eagle
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